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Areas of law

• Family and care proceedingsParents’ mental health and children’s injuries, for care and other family proceedings.

  Experts often instructedPaediatricsPsychiatryPsychologyFamily court

• Personal injuryCondition, prognosis and causation after an accident or assault.

  Experts often instructedOrthopaedic surgeryNeurologyPsychiatryPsychologyGeneral practice (GP)County Court and High Court

• Clinical negligenceBreach of duty and causation in claims about medical care.

  Experts often instructedGeneral practice (GP)Acute and general medicineOrthopaedic surgeryPaediatricsCounty Court and High Court

• Employment lawWhether a condition counts as a disability, psychiatric injury and fitness for work.

  Experts often instructedPsychiatryPsychologyNeurologyOrthopaedic surgeryEmployment tribunals

• Immigration and asylumMental health and trauma evidence for asylum and human rights appeals.

  Experts often instructedPsychiatryPsychologyImmigration and asylum tribunals

• CriminalFitness to plead, mental state, injuries and sentencing.

  Experts often instructedForensic psychiatryPsychiatryPsychologyOrthopaedic surgeryPaediatricsNeurologyMagistrates’ courts and the Crown Court

• Parole Board and prison lawRisk and mental health evidence for parole reviews and prison law cases.

  Experts often instructedForensic psychiatryPsychiatryPsychologyThe Parole Board

• HousingMedical evidence on vulnerability, and on how housing conditions affect a client’s health.

  Experts often instructedGeneral practice (GP)Acute and general medicinePaediatricsPsychiatryHousing reviews and the County Court

• Historical abuse and discriminationPsychiatric injury and its cause in non-recent abuse claims and in discrimination claims.

  Experts often instructedPsychiatryPsychologyCivil courts and the employment tribunal

• Wills and probateWhether someone had capacity to make a will, often judged after death from the medical records.

  Experts often instructedPsychiatryNeurologyGeneral practice (GP)Contested probate claims

• Mental capacity and Court of ProtectionWhether a person can make a particular decision, for the Court of Protection and other courts.

  Experts often instructedPsychiatryPsychologyNeurologyThe Court of Protection